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AbiCoder: decode revert errors

See original GitHub issue

Even though transaction receipts do not give us revert error strings, eth_calls do, and it would be nice if the AbiCoder knew how to decode them (and likely, throw an error with the string).

In particular, there was a situation where I wanted to query a contract for boolean value. Some times, this check reverts (perhaps the contract is not completely done being set up yet), but ethers’ AbiCoder takes the 0x08c379a0...<revert string> result from the eth_call and says, yes, that’s a boolean (and a true one at that!).

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Created 4 years ago
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nividacommented, Oct 19, 2019

@ricmoo We haven’t implemented the revert handling at all in web3.js. I will prioritize this open task higher.

Btw.: 1.2.1 is also not using the latest version of the AbiCoder but it’s on our todo list (we have to update all the ABI related test cases and some utility functions (adding of the correct padding)).

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ricmoocommented, Nov 20, 2019

I’m going to close this now, as it isn’t related to ethers, I don’t believe. But please feel free to re-open. 😃

Thanks! 😃

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